Shoor Veer Singh

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain